He is a French Horn player who is a member of the Netherlands Symphony Orchestra. Rene has also performed with Pat Metheny & the Metropole Orchestra and as a soloist with Banda Municipal Lalin.
In the recording studio he has performed on albums that include Rosa The Death of a Composer by Louis Andriessen and Moon Dreams – Rediscovered Music by Gil Evans and Gerry Mulligan by the Dutch Jazz Orchestra, Revolutions by Jim Hardy and Hardy Mertens Live at Rodahall – WMC.
In the field of musical education Rene has been a teacher at the Orlando Festival.
Here he is performing a solo on Vittorio Monti’s “Czardas”…
Sources:
- http://www.nl-rso.org/musicianse.html
- https://content.thespco.org/people/rene-pagen/
- http://hornroller.com/french-horn?page=1113
- http://krashna.nl/en/blog/88/Music-Worlds-Festival.html
- http://www.discogs.com/search?q=Rene+Pagen&type=all
- http://www.mirasound.nl/wwm/wwm_2010_new.html
- http://www.sunnysiderecords.com/release_detail.php?releaseID=443
- http://www.zonadejazz.com/2009/06/20/pat-metheny-and-metropole-orchestra-north-sea-jazz-festival-2003/